Richardson-2006 “Newspapers” Dr. John V. Richardson Jr., Professor DIS 19 “Just Google It!” UCLA GSE&IS Department of Information Studies

Richardson-2006 Newspapers issued at stated, frequent intervals daily, Los Angeles Times weekly, Barron’s semi-weekly containing news, opinions, advertisements and other items of current, often local interest SOURCE: ALA Glossary (1983)

Richardson-2006 First American Newspaper Publick Occurrences: Both Foreign and Domestick appeared on 25 September 1690 and promptly ceased publication due to British charges of sedition

Richardson-2006 Newspaper Circulation (1985) Average Daily Paid Circulation: Wall Street Journal: 1,910,085 New York Daily News: 1,354,220 USA Today: 1,352,897 Los Angeles Times: 1,058,698 The New York Times: 964,360 New York Post: 804,441 Chicago Tribune: 755,648 The Washington Post: 737,480 The Detroit News: 645,417 The Detroit Free Press: 636,306

Richardson-2006 Newspaper Circulation (1999 & 2001) Average Daily Circulation: The Wall Street Journal: 1,792,452 and 1,819,528 USA Today, 1, 739,294 and 1,769,650 The New York Times: 1,134,974 and 1,159,954 Los Angeles Times: 1,098,347 and 1,058, 494 The Washington Post: 809,059 and 802,594 SOURCE: USA Today, 4 May 1999, p. 3B and Editor and Publisher 7 May 2001, p. 6.

Richardson-2006 Top Sunday Papers (2001) The New York Times, 1,698,281 Los Angeles Times, 1,391,343 The Washington Post, 1,070,809 Chicago Tribune, 1,001,662 The Denver Post, 970,934 SOURCE: Editor and Publisher, 7 May 2001, p. 6

Richardson-2006 Mid-Decade Decline USA Today, 2.61 M The Wall Street Journal, 3.07 M The New York Times, 1.68 M The Los Angeles Times, 1.25 M The Washington Post, 1.00 M SOURCE: New York Times, 3 May 2005.

Richardson-2006 Editors’ Top Ten Choices The New York Times (N=101) The Washington Post (85) The Wall Street Journal (84) Los Angeles Times (81) The Dallas Morning News (66) Chicago Tribune (60 tie) The Boston Globe (60 tie) San Jose Mercury News (54) St. Petersburg Times (51) The Sun (Baltimore) (46) SOURCE; Columbia Journalism Review

Richardson-2006 State of Newspapers, 2005 Circulation of seven newspapers with the largest circulation (>500,000 is down, 2005) War is good business (Kosovo; Persian Gulf; and now Iraq) However, local newspaper circulation continues to slip due to: TV/DVD, specialty publications, Internet, price hikes Perhaps most importantly, younger people don’t read…

Richardson-2006 State of Newspaper Publishing, 2007 Steep slide nationally: 2.1 percent drop in overall weekday circulation and 3.1 percent in Sunday sales—”falling earnings, declines in advertising and plans for continued staff cuts….” New York Post and The Daily News, both increased circulation Otherwise, USA Today (2.2M), WSJ (2M), NYT (1.1M); the LA Times is down 4.2 and 4.7 percent respectively—total circulation is only 815K compared to more than 1M seven years ago SOURCE: “Newspaper Circulation,” NYT 1 May 2007, p. C10

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